Session 049: Back to the Beholder Report

The Party Return to Dierde to Face-off with the Beholder

General Summary

04/27/2023

The Mighty Menagerie (3)

Lowsun 13, 2023 KC, Late Afternoon

At Beholder Lair north of Village of Skola Vale, Skola Vale, Kampos The party, with Bastion unaware of anything, are back in the treasure room. Smoke and fire is coming from the left tunnel. They start to look for a way to stop it and then a Bugbear appears. He has his hands up. He says he would be willing to help fight the Beholder, none of the others are willing to help. He was sent here just months ago to investigate why the nearby mines were having problems as strange effects had been affecting the miners. He was captured, and the Beholder was able to charm him to stay. They then start working on a plan how to get up. Wild shape, Fly spells, and other methods were implemented to get everyone up. They flew up and saw a mess. Some silvery dust was everywhere and Dead beholders everywhere, many turning grey. In the midst of this dark room is a tall Black Obelisk with some strange pattern inside and it is looking like a Crystal so it can be seen through except this glowing network of lights inside. above it is another orb, like the Orb of Toril this one seems to be cracking around the equator with some purple electric storm coming out of it. The Beholder is staring at it and seems to be in the midst of some ritual.

Just as the party comes out the Beholder spots them.




Beholder

The Battle:

Need to do Combat... Barlo got a Message... Barlo gets a Mental Message

(To Barlo): You hear a voice explode in your head "I see you, thief. How dare you steal from the Shadowthieves? We will soon be coming for you to get our stolen property and you can be sure we will wipe the memory of you off the planet." and then it Is gone.



☠️ Arktos




t Combat Experience: 11500 (1916 ea) | Total: 58596 (Next Goal: 64,000) t

The ground ripples blue and purple, as like water. The Orb falls... tink tink tink and seems to still have some purple energy, the obelisk turns into solid obsidian-looking and no longer see through.. the other beholders begin to deflate and turn into some chalky salt grey material. Shadow finds the Orb. Bastion turns to stone. Barlo says "someone knows we are here". He tells them how he had a voice in his head. Shadow pulls out the scroll of Greater Restoration. Sas drops out of wildshape, reads off the scroll. It fades to dust and Bastion gets his color back and is fine.

Bugbear: "I would like to thank you for getting us our freedom. I will see what I can do about the others, and they have probably looted the room below by now. So don't expect much. I have to get back to the Vale though so I can talk to that guy..." Barlo: "Wait, you are from Skola Vale?" Bugbear: "That's where the guy who contracted me was. He has some Sapphire mines and they were having some problems, I think because this Beholder here was causing ripples and tears in reality. So the miners were not getting work done. I was hired to investigate. The next thing you know I was a slave here." Barlo: "Describe the guy." Bugbear: "he's a Half-Orc, named Morenars Neyers." Shadow: "I thought he had an Emerald mine." Bugbear: "he has all types of mines here, sapphires, emeralds, etc..." The party discussed what they wanted to happen with the mines. Barlo asked about the gems being present in these mines, and Ratlok Darksky said there are all types of gems in the neighboring mines and as you go north along the ridge towards Bronze Canyon you run into Metal mines."

They start to prepare the Beholder for travel, as he wanted the whole corpse. It is too big for the Bag of Colding. They cast Gentle Repose on it. The Bugbear casts Feather Fall, says goodbye and leaps into the hole... slowly falls down. Bastion investigates the pile, Shadow looks for the orb.




20375 gp, 504 pp
Art: 3 art objects worth 750 gp each
[1 Bottle stopper cork embossed with Gold leaf and set with amethysts, 2 Silver-plated Steel longswords with Jet set in hilt]
Magic Items (1): [1 Potion of Supreme Healing (10d4 + 20)]
AO Signet ring

body of a Dead Tiefling who had the AO ring. He also had a Burnt Book. Hard to get anything from it, but it does look like Meklan's handwriting. Shadow finds the orb. It is cracked and crackling with lighting of blue and purple at the equator with some type of possible tentacle coming out of it. The "statues" around the room seem to be adventurers who might have died and been turned to stone. Barlo is getting a Weird feeling by being here. He speaks of how someone said they are coming after him, or them all, because they stole something and they would wipe their minds off the earth. (Later it is learned to have come from the Shadow Thieves Bastion asks if he stole something important. Barlo says he has stolen things, but nothing comes to mind. He says nothing too big or important. The voice was not @Jacoby. They realize that the anti-magic field must have allowed them to communicate with Barlo. They tie the Beholder to a rope. and then the dust becomes like sand on the beach at night. They look around and they are no longer in the cave. In an endless desert with three pyramids in the distance, a large sphinx, and the Black Obelisk are there. In front of them is an acttrative woman with a somewhat feline face. Sas knows her, Shadow is sure of who she is.

Bast: "I can only communicate with you when you are near such an obelisk. I don't have long, so I must be quick..." Shadow: "Bast?" Bast: "That is one name I go by. Some time ago, I gave Sas an orb and now, Shadow, you have another of these powerful orbs. The one Sas has is very important to me, and I still need you do something for me. I had set things in motion for you to meet, to get what you need, to get you where I need you to go." Sas: "Do we have everything we need now?" Bast: "I need you to take that orb, and your Tabaxi friend has a way to use the ship to get you where I need you to go. At that point you can help me with something. Until then, it seems you are coming across these orbs and we need to do something about that. For now, you need to keep them hidden. You can even put that one in the same Bronze case as the other one. Sas: "Where do you need us to go? Bast: "I need you to go to the City in the Mist as I have my pharoah who needs the orb to be Reborn. It's taken me years to put things in motion so this can happen. I don't have the time to explain now." at that moment, they are Blinded by white Light and they are returned to the Beholder room. "Let's get out of here and mull it over on the travel."

They all get down. (Arktos uses gaseous form) Barlo searches the statues and finds some Silver and Electrum, not much at all.

**Left in Beholder Treasury about to leave**

Rewards Granted

20375 gp, 504 pp
Art: 3 art objects worth 750 gp each
[1 Bottle stopper cork embossed with Gold leaf and set with amethysts, 2 Silver-plated Steel longsword with Jet set in hilt]
Magic Items (1): [1 Potion of Supreme Healing (10d4 + 20)]
AO Signet ring
damaged Orb

Experience

t Combat Experience: 11500 (1916 each) | Total: 58,596 (Next Goal: 64,000) t

Missions/Quests Completed

defeated beholder

Character(s) interacted with

Characters

Creatures

Created Content

2023

9 (Lowsun)

Lowsun 13, 2023 KC, Late Afternoon

The party finds themselves back in the Beholder caves and go to fight the beholder

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